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No. 1 was built of dry sprigs of climbing-plants intermixed with grass-bents and strengthened 
by means of split shreds of ti-palm leaf, the cavity being lined, as usual, with soft moss. This 
structure, which appeared to be more loosely put together than usual, was discovered in the head of 
a ti-palm and contained, in addition to two unfledged young birds, three bad eggs. No. 2 was com- 
posed almost entirely of dry moss with a few slender strips of bark fixed to the outer surface, in order 
to give it stability, and in the lining of the cup could be seen a few green Parrakeet feathers. This 
nest was placed in a mossy recess on a rocky ledge in thick bush, and when found contained four eggs. 
Tig. 3. Fig. 4. 
Figures 3 and 4 represent very unusual forms — one of them having an exact resemblance to a moss- 
basket, with a profusion of tree-fern down in the centre and cavity ; the other being of a long tapering 
form and measuring fully fifteen inches in length from the rim of the cup to the lower extremity of 
the nest. 
I have given, at page 48, some pocket-book sketches showing a considerable amount of variation 
in the nests of Gerygone flaviventris. The following are further illustrations of the kind, the one 
exhibiting a side view being ornamented with Accena- burrs. 
